MINIX NEO X8 and X8s Android TV Boxes are Now Available for Pre-order for $119 and up

Last month, MINIX announced their NEO X8 and NEO X8s Android TV boxes powered by Amlogic S802 and S802-H (with Dolby/DTS support). The company disclosed the specifications but they did not provide price information. This morning, I noticed the devices were available for pre-order on DealExtreme for $132 and $151.56, and I went to look for it on Aliexpress where NEO X8 sells for as low as $119 and NEO X8s for $148. All prices include shipping. One shop also sell these for well over $200 with the new MINIX NEO M1 air mouse.

Both are sold with a 5V/3A power adapter (1.80m cable), a short OTG cable (23cm), a micro USB cable (1m), an HDMI cable (1.02m), a Wi-Fi antenna, an IR remote control, and an English user’s manual. Power adapter for the US, Europe, UK, and Australia are said to be available, although on DX you can only choose a UK plug for NEO X8s, and US and Europe plugs for NEO X8. None of the sites actually indicate when the products will ship, but a seller on Aliexpress said stock will be available by the end of this month.

Javi :
DX is one of the biggest B2C of China, I don’t think they are lying on this.

DX is not lying, they just don’t know this whole things,or their Category manager (product manger) don’t know the product well. and The problem is the supplier behind the listing. DX have changed its business type, they have a good supplier backstage, a lot of supplier want to beat new product and price in that backstate, the supplier hide in this neo x8 /X8s listing want to get the chance of selling neo x8/x8s, so they break minix rules, and list the product.

here is the email from CEO of MINIX:
“Dear *****,

it is important complaints… you have to warning those involved parties that if they(dx) don’t correct it, then will affect their allocation of X8 series.

If you ask me, the difference between X8 and X8-H is too small.
I get 16GB space, DTS and an airmouse for just $20?

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6 years ago

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Jibril

170$ USD for Amlogic S802H ?
Too much money…I’ll wait for a settlement with the other players (Tronsmart – BeelinK – Measy).

Ok for the 16GB Nand (better if it will be eMMC Nand)… but I am doubtful about whether it will be in the bundle the airmouse.

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6 years ago

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Jibril

also offering the Minix Neo X8 at 150$ USD is a non-sense, because IMHO is a dated (old) product, already sold at less money from other competitors

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6 years ago

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Ari

It will be interesting to follow dx.com’s actions – after all they were the first major player to launch the presale campaign of X8 and X8-H – the campaign which they quicly withtdrew. I wonder when (if ever) their customers will get the items dx.com advertized to be shipped in 7-10 days – the presale price of dx.com for X8-H was only $ 152.99 which quite a lot less than the official retail price now announced by Minix. Maybe dx.com will just leave M1 out of the presold X8-H packages and replace it with the plain IR remote in order to avoid losses 😉 Best solution for dx.com would of course be if their their customers just cancalled their preorders of X8-H to avoid the bad publicity…

Well – dx.com acted quite clumsy with all those customers who managed to put through a preorder of X8/X8-H before dx.com halted their campaign stating that the products are “sold out”: they just returned their customers their money and quoted that according to their own terms they have the righr to do that. Even though they unarguably have that right, their customers would have been entitled to a better explanation than “the product is no longer available, we are sorry for the inconvinience”. If the question is about a presell campaign, the customers already know that the product is not yet available but they still want it as soon it is available 🙂

I actually contacted dx.com in order to get further information about this miserably failed presell campaign but they just continued their “when you do not mention it, it never happened” policy. Sad end to their first presell campaign and even worse attitude towards their customers who will undoubtedly look for other retailers, not only for X8/X8-H but also for their future comitments. Even elephants do not have so permanent memory as once mishandled customers…

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